April 30, 2008 by gregshore.

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April 29, 2008 by gregshore.

We went through a lot of exercises so that people could learn/re-learn them. Spent time with the body bars. I was surprised when I looked at myself in the mirror. I could actually pick out individual muscles! That hasn’t happened for a VERY long time.

PFT on Thursday.

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April 28, 2008 by gregshore.

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April 28, 2008 by gregshore.

I love Boot Camp. Even though I had been working out pretty hard over the last few weeks, it just wasn’t the same. As usual, I ended up in a puddle of sweat as soon as we finished running. Bad for me. We only counted to five doing the exercises. As soon as we got going it seemed like we stopped. Well, everybody else stopped; I kept on going, whicj meant I then had to bang out extra push-ups. I did a lot of push-ups. I was trying to do them quicly in a puddle of sweat and my hands continually went out from under me.

I love Boot Camp. Run. Do this. Do that. I don’t need to think about what I’m going to do. I don’t need to plan anything. I just show up and do it. Works for me.

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April 26, 2008 by gregshore.

At the Riverdogs game after the race:

Well, I see it like this, Greg. You can run faster and farther than me because you train to do it. And you train to run because you like to run. Me - I like drinking beer. So, I train to drink beer. And being able to sit here and enjoy several beers during the game is because I’ve trained myself to drink beer, just like you’ve trained yourself to run long miles.

~Fitty Lub

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April 26, 2008 by gregshore.

I wasn’t feeling great when we started - I guess I didn’t feel fresh. I had spent the morning with the neighborhood association’s Clean Sweep, picking up trash. It’s not particularly hard work but when you spend two hours stooped over, it tends to get a little tiring. But I’m really grateful that I can now do the bending and shuffling along that comes with doing that kind of thing.

Met Grady, Liz, Allan, and Mary before the race. I kept Mary in my sites for the first mile or so and was really pleased to see Grady and Alan not too far behind me as we wound through the Citadel. I finshed in about 30.10. Grady and Allan finished under 32. This was the first 5K for Grady and he did great and it was a new PR for Allan.

Liz was kind enough to snap a picture of us enjoying our reward after the race.

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April 26, 2008 by gregshore.

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April 25, 2008 by gregshore.

Ran with a friend for 40 minutes on the track. We worked on hitting a 50-sec half lap pace which would equate to a 10 minute mile. Did six half-laps and then did a recovery until her HR monitor showed she was below 140 BPM and then picked it up again. We started with a one mile warm-up and ended with a half-mile cool down and stretching. Probably our total mileage today was around 3, give or take 2 laps.

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April 24, 2008 by gregshore.

This was our last group workout before Boot Camp begins again on Monday. Some days have been pretty intense. So intense that I remarked to someone that I was looking forward to Boot Camp beginning again so that we could ease back on the intensity. Over the course of a 12-week Boot Camp, the Marine instructors dial it up. They never start from a lowest common denominator but if you’ve let your fitness level drop in between sessions, you’ll know it at the end of the first day. Unfortunately for me, for summer sessions, because most are alumni and the session is only four weeks, they tend to ramp up the intensity very quickly. They’ll be no bagging it next week.

My friend Pat asked me what today’s workout would be. I told her I didn’t have a plan but if she wanted to lead a workout that she was welcome to. She declined but said she hated the zoo workout and would like to that because it challenged her. Each person led one exercise - their choice - and then picked an animal to emulate while traversing the tennis courts - bear crawls, inch worm, cheetah, gator walk, tyrannasorus rex (lunges with your hands held to your chest - it really affects your balance!), frog hops, etc. All of these tend to work a lot of small stabilizing muscles and muscles that you don’t always use. For instance, my trapezius is always sore after doing inchworms and bear crawls - painfully, but not injured, kind of sore.

Pat is not my friend

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April 23, 2008 by gregshore.

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